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    Renowned Marine expert Hervey Garrett Smith in his Book, *The Arts of the Sailor...Knotting, Splicing and Ropework*. Mimics your sentiment concerning shroud lanyards. Rob
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    Worked a bit today on the topsail yard. I also finalized my method for fabricating the iron sheet blocks for this model. They are only 1/8" wide..pinned and ready for both sheet chains to pass through. Rob
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    Photos reveal all manner of irregularities.....and sloppy workmanship. I generally work in 1/96 and larger scales....1/128 makes things a bit smaller and harder to keep clean and sharp. Or am I just getting older with poorer vision and acuity ? Thanks for the fine compliment. I'll put more time into it tomorrow...today is honey-do day. Rob
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    Spent a little time today working on the lower topsail yard and its lift and hardware Rob
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    One thing I can surely say.....I'm not finicky when it comes to certain details. I worked on the lower topsail yard...adding bands and pad-eyes for blocks. I'll only install the securing band to the parrel when I'm ready to permanently secure the yard to the lower mast head. I think I'll finish up all the yards for each mast before I step the mast...its so much easier to work on them off model. Rob
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    Thanks gentlemen.....I believe she needs a significant location and on the mantle in front of this particular painting...she will surely be on display......Until she has been dressed out with full canvas .... then she will be impeding the view of the painting and will probably be relocated to her own shelf (I will make for that purpose) to the right of the mantle. We'll see. I'll work on some yards tonight and post some images of that adventure. Rob
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    Nicely executed Ed.
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    Did a bit of work today on the GR main mast. I first finished up the shrouds and ratlines. Then hit the books for some reverification of the lift gin-blocks and I decided to rearrange them to a more suitable location *under* the mast cap..instead of along the cap. There needed to be a lift block I bolt mounted there...sooo.... I also finished up the addition of the spreader as well. Here are some images of the days work. I'll finish up the lift gin-block mod on the fore and mizzen later this week. The spanker mast has a bit of rigging to be done as well...so I'll tackle that when I do the gin-block mods. I think before I proceed in stepping the masts and rigging the main shrouds....I'll deviate and turn all the spars and get them banded and finish up the iron work on them. Rob
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    Well I spent some time today working on the main mast shrouds....along with that I made several more gin-blocks for the lifts for the lower topsails. Here in the images you can see the added gin-blocks and I decided to test fit the main spar too. Just a bit more and then the ratlines.
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    Well...as I predicted, my love has other things instore for me tonight....but I did get some pics of the mandrel I made for my saw blades. Here are some. this little tool makes cutting off material so much easier. I have 4 sizes of blades......the large and medium are shown here.
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    Thanks Popeye....I couldn't be married to a more supportive woman.....and thanks for the ship compliments...I hope to get the mainmast finished up, so I can step the masts and begin on the main shrouds. I'll revisit the fore and mizzen masts to add some block eye bolts and a lower topmast iron gin-block. Rob
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    Today I spent a bit of time in the model shop working on the top shrouds of the main mast....but I had to deviate to the metal shop and put in some lathe time, turning a mandril for my dental handpiece to hold small circular saw blades. Blades around 1/2"~ 1" in diameter...so I can more readily cut small wood and metal parts..without the heat and dust generated from my diamond cutters. I'll post images tomorrow. I hope to finish up the main mast then as well...we'll see. This is my anniversary week of 34 years...so my sweetheart might have other plans for me. Rob
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    Ed....I remeasured with slight compression and was able to achieve .140. it looks right for 1/72 scale, but my GR at 1/128...I'll surely need smaller. I did find several spools of 100 silk....I might look into that. Thanks for everything. Rob
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    Spent a bit of time experimenting with lift block construction and for the gin blocks for the tye chain rigging I made this metal block that will get painted. I'll need two per lower topsail for the Forbes rig. Typically you have one and the chain tye runs through the mast sheave and back down to another gin-block and then to the halliard and further down to the purchase blocks and belay pin. Since the Forbes system places the lower topsail parrel stropped to the main mast doubling there is no access for a mast sheave because of the proximity of the topmast aft doubling. So the tye must anchor at the cap, run down through the shackled first gin-block at the spar band, back up to the second gin-block at the cap head(to one side) and then down through the tops and on to the halliard. Here is my first gin-block....it's about 3/8" The chain is 42 lpi.
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    I scour old garage and estate sales. Sometimes I get lucky Here is another.This is a replication of a famous painting I recall seeing. Rob
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    Yikes...I must have measured my 10 wraps incorrectly...... I was not wanting to compress the rope so I cam up with .155". Making my rope at a scale of 1/128 to be around 6.22" rope. that's ginormous..... Maybe I need to make my first caliper reading a bit snugger? At your scale of 1/72 that makes about a 3.5" line. Rob
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    Thanks Ed...good advice. I was looking at your examples, on your ship and an example of the material I have, and it is quite small...and I too realize the larger number generally means the smaller size....but in this case it is confusing, because anything smaller then the 30 I have is going to be really tiny stuff.... So for comparisons sake...the average size you generally use...wrapped around a dowel 10 times, divided by 10 measures out to be what? So I can compare. Thanks again. Rob
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    Thanks...that was a painting I picked up in San Diego about 30 years ago...well executed and alive. I also have this painting that was done in 1942 another original. Rob
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    What is the size difference from 100 and 30. I have several rolls of ECRU Art. A-105 Cotton Mercerized cotton line size 30. Rob
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    Fantastic work Ed. Rob
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    It's so true..we can spend far too much time on truly minor issues. However, the purist can't help themselves. Personally, I've concluded that it is an impossibility, to try to duplicate every aspect....from the actual materials used on real vessels, to models of them. Linen, cotton, synthetic, blends.....? Non of it is hemp or steal cable NOTHING we build our models from was ever used on the real vessels for the same purposes. We use copper(for fabricating iron work)...They, real Iron. We use bass wood and all manner of fine grained woods....They, Live Oak, Yellow pine, mahogany. We use water based acrylic paints...They, lead based paints and worse. We use brass/copper sheathing...They. Muntz (Yellow ) metal Etc, Etc, Etc...... Personally, I feel you can use whatever is on hand to (REPLICATE) what you are trying to replicate. This is such a personal hobby...were some major on minors and others somewhat less. I appreciate the work and skill that is represented here...probably the greatest appreciation is representation in accuracy of actual historical items....NOT in what material was used to create it. These rantings are all my personal view and I'm almost positive do not represent the majority of participants. On a personal note...Ed...your attention to detail and fabrication is among the level of very few, and I appreciate you bringing us along on your great adventure. The building of a first class clipper ship. Rob
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    I placed the fore and mizzen mast back into the model to see how things look...coming along nicely. When I have time I kinda get some stuff done. Now that the front porch is finished. The Great Republic gets to sit on the mantle in my Den. Rob
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    Ratlines are finished on the mizzen mast. I forgo the ratlins on the futtock shrouds at this time to facilitate running rigging passage later. They will be added at that time . Now onto the main mast....and lastly the spanker mast which will have rigging limited to futtock shrouds and top shrouds and ratlines at this stage.
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    Feeling better I spent some time on the mizzen mast and finished up some items...the shrouds and the spreaders. Now I just need to ready myself for the long process of rigging the ratlines...... Rob
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    Tom...new shipyard looks amazing...great space...glad things are working out and you can be back to work in no time..... Pickin out my seat.... Rob

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